Inherently messy

Insight for the day:

Technology will always change. People will always change, except for one thing: They are inherently messy. Each person has their own preferences, views, and world structures. You cannot design technology without first understanding the commonalities in the tangled mess of the people who will be using it.

Photo: Danboard’s Messy Home by Tim and used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) license.